Go through the top 10 list of free form builders available along with their detailed pros and cons. Also read through the summary to know which form builder may be the best option for you.
Creating Website Forms are sometimes very tedious jobs if you don’t have the right tools, and more often when you need the form created within hours. Unless and until you have your resources and scripts ready it can take hours or long. For those who knows basic HTML/CSS and want to have web forms in their websites it may become a problem. This problems are overcome by online form generators.
I have found 3 or mixed kinds of form generators online,
- Form generators which created only the HTML/CSS for the forms. This type of form generators are viable for those who have the scripts ready and only need a stylish well arranged HTML/CSS with form validation.
- Form generators which create both HTML/CSS and the scripts required to run the form successfully in your website. This are better options for those who doesn’t have much programming skills or doesn't want to go through the tedious process of creating a script.
- The last kind of form generators are those which does both processing, creating and hosting of the form in their server, this type is specifically suited for those having 100′ds of responses daily, this will make the server load of the original site to be low, as well the companies which offers this service also implements many kinds of anti spam techniques which can be very useful for large sites. Can also be used by those sites which doesn’t want to have any kind of backend processing or doesn’t know implementing.
The 1st kind of form generators are mostly free, but the 2nd and 3rd types are generally in most cases premium, though they have free options with less frills and wow factors. In this article I’ll round you up with all kinds of form creators and only those which are free or have free basic option. I’m pretty sure you won’t need to even look more after going through this article.
Wufoo Form Builder
- User Friendly Interface
- Easy Integration
- Vast Features
- No backend script download
- No file upload facilities (and many other features) for free users
- 100 entries/month
JotForm Form Builder
- User Friendly Interface
- Many premium features for free
- Free SSL forms
- 1oo submissions/month
- 10Mb Upload Limit
Form Site Form Builder
- Multipage Forms
- Login Based Secure Forms
- 50 Items Support
- 1oo submissions/month
- 50Mb File Storage Limit
- 10 results/form storage only
Accessify Form Creator
- Very Simple User Interface
- XHTML Makrup
- No Backend Script
- Not Many Features
Form Spring Form Builder
- Good User Interface
- Fast Creation & Integration
- No Submission Limit
- No File Upload
- No Script Download
EmailMe Form Builder
- Unlimited Submissions
- Spam Filter
- 50 Max Field
- Slow Interface
- No Script Download for free users
PHP Form Generator
- FREE Script Download
- Multipage Support
- Every Thing is FREE
- NONE considering this is free and in beta phase but i’d recommend they improve the user interface
Kontactr Contact Form Creator
- Super Fast
- No Options to Modify
Formmail Maker Form Creator
- Free Script Download
- Admin panel
- Bad Interface
- No Multipage Support
pForm Form Build
- Very Good User Interface
- Very Fast Creator
- None (considering its type 1)
VisitorContact Contact form Creator
This is the 11th one but i thought i should add this on the list. A web 2.0 no frills contact form creator complete with google maps, captha and other features with floatable button. Very good one if you are looking for only a simple contact form.
- Good Styling
- Simple Interface
- Fields can’t be modified
So What Should You Use?
It depends on your need, everyone in the list have its pros and cons, so you should select the one which suits you best, I’ve tried to summarize some conditions below and if you are one of them feel free to check my suggestion.
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